I’ll happily pay these 30% if it means I get quality services for them:

• high speed download servers
• reliable cloud saves
• automatic, non intrusive updates
• discussion forums
• easy mod management
• friend networking, multiplayer services
• responsive and uncomplicated support

(using Steam as an example here)

People always act like those are to be taken as granted, but if you have ever worked in dev/devops, you would know that there’s a lot of work maintaining each one of them.

Also, you can use these services for as long as you want, despite paying for them with a single one-time purchase.

Of course, if the platform doesn’t provide any services or benefits, your point stands. In that case just avoid it.

My two cockatiels Oreo and Kiri preening each other

The new System Shock remake. I needed to draw a map of all elevator connections because Citadel station is extremely convoluted. Also, you get codes (or parts of codes) and instructions here an there, that you’ll need later on.

Ja, die Firma in der ich arbeite, implementiert das System für die Bahn

Das soll künftig der offizielle Ersatz für strecken.info werden. Ist im Moment nur als Beta veröffentlicht, da noch einige Funktionen fehlen.

Und die Einrichtung der Subdomains ist bei der Bahn immer ein bisschen ein organisatorisches Geschiss - da war es einfacher, für die Zeit der Entwicklung ne neue Domain zu besorgen.

https://strecken-info-beta.de/

“Leblose Person im Gleis”